Pacific Standard

The poultry industry's secret weapon? Uniquely skilled workers who can identify a chick's gender in the blink of an eye.

An analysis of modern DNA uncovers a rough dating scene after the advent of agriculture.

Big news from Grist!

Extreme risk protection orders, or "red flag laws," help keep guns away from people showing clear warning signs of violence.

Human error helped worsen a nuclear meltdown just outside Los Angeles, and now human inertia has stymied the radioactive cleanup for half a century.

Forty years ago, thanks to an organization founded by four high school friends, human rights beat out the free market-and now we can all pee for free.

Rent control has long been criticized by economists, but the list of theoretical harms often aren't observable in reality. With a lack of serious public housing funding, the policy may be one of the best, and cheapest, ways to protect low-income families.

When a thing you just found out about suddenly seems to crop up everywhere.

Like, an actual joke.

The trouble with ignorance is that it feels so much like expertise. A leading researcher on the psychology of human wrongness sets us straight.